Bag-holder.



F. G. STORES.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLIOAIION FILED 0013.4, 1906.

1,045,21 1; f Patented Nov. 26,1912.

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56 T if 5 a a F. 0 S'TORRS.

BAG HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED 0073.4, 1906.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

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TlNTTET) STATES PATFN T @FFTfiE.

FRED C. STORE-S, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 FRANK HOLTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BAG-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED C. S'roRns, a citizen of -the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n bag holders, and more particularly to paper bags, and the object of the same is to provide an improved, simple, and efficient device of this character for conveniently holding and retaining a plurality of bags, and from which a single bag may be removed without interfering with the remaining bags.

To the attainment of these ends, and the accomplishment of other new and useful objects, as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawings illustrating an embodiment of the invention, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the counter having this improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a sectional View on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail top plan I view of one form of bag holder; Fig. 4 is a plan View of the bag holding clamp or clip, and a portion of the clip support; Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 55 of Fig. 4;

- Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the clip or clamp supporter or holder; Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view of the counter, and a modified form of holder or supporter; Fig. 8 is an elevation of the modified form of holder or supporter; Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view on the line 99 of Fig. 8.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, and in which the same reference numerals designate similar parts throughout the several views, the numeral 15 designates the top of a counter which is provided with a depending flange or portion 16, located preferably at the rear thereof, and the depending flange 17 adjacent the flange 16 and parallel thereto. Secured in any suitable manner to the lower face of the flange 16 is a suitable plate or member 18, which is of a width substantially equal to the width of the said flange 16; and the sides thereof are preferably rounded or curved as at 19. A plate or member 20 is provided with a depressed central portion 21, and the front and rear edge of said depressed portion are preferably rounded or bent, as at 22, in a manner similar to the edges of the plate or member 18. This plate or member 20 is secured in any suitable manner to the plate or member 18 to form a guide or aperture 23 between the plate 18 and the central depressed portion of the plate 20. Any number of these supports or holders thus formed may be employed.

A suitable bag holding clip, preferably constructed from a piece of spring metal, may be provided, and this clip is so formed as to produce a coil or projection 24, and extending laterally from said coil or projection are arms 25, the ends of which are deflected toward each other, as at 26, and the extremities 27 thereof are preferably curved and overlap. The convolutions of the coil or projection 24 are preferably spaced from each other, and are so constructed as to be adapted to be brought toward each other to permit of their ready insertion into the aperture 23, and when in position will expand or separate to hold the coil or projection 24 in said aperture.

The coil or projection 24 is preferably inserted from the front of the aperture 23, so as to cause the arms 26 to project toward the rear of the counter. Before being inserted into the support or holder, the bags may be inserted into the clip, and the pressure exerted by the bags will cause the arms 25 and 26 to yield and assume the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4; the tension of the arms 25 and 26 being suflicient to hold the bags in position and to prevent accidental displacement.

The upper ends of the bags are preferably inserted in the bag-holding clips so that the lower ends will project for some distance above the clips, and when the clip is placed in the support or holder, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the bottoms of the bags will assume a position substantially flush with the top of the counter 15.

If desired, and in order to provide additional means for supporting the bottoms of the bags adjacent the top of the counter, suitable guides or holding members 28 may be provided on each side of the bags. These guides or holding members may be of any suitable construction, preferably in the form of staples driven intogthe A edge 9f" the counter 20, adjacent each side of the bags.

-In,- Fig. 7 isshowna modified form of support or holder-j This supporter holder is preferably constructed of a piece of flexi ble Wire comprising a body portion 29, and a coil 30, located adjacent one end thereot. TheeXt-remity lispreferably bent at right anglesto the body portion 29. An L shaped clip or plate 32is secured to the bottom of the counter 15 in any suitable man ii'erfso 'that the projecting portion 33 thereiof will extend outwardly and be spaced from th'e'bottom of the counter 15', and said forwardly' projecting portion 33 is provided with asuitable aperture, adapteditol receive :the projecting extremity 31' of the supporting member. L g Thebody' portion29fo'f the "supporting member is in'sertedthrough thecoilQ t o f thebag-holding clip, and will hold the bags in such a position that they will'restagainst 't-he'flo wer' edges of theflanges 16 and 17 of thecounterpand said supporting member is h'e'ldfagainst displacement by means ofthe friction exerted'by'theeXtremity 31 in the aperture of "the forwardly "projecting por- 'tion'33, and the pressure of the coil'BO upon the 'face of the flange 17 Inthis exemplification ofthe invention, the bag-holding clip isslightly modified, as shown in dotted lines inFig'S', thatis, the arms 26 are pre'ferably rounding in'amanner similar to the arms 25, soasto preventthe weightof the'bag from 'e'Xpa-nding'the arms which would permit the bags to dropout of position.

-'1'"Inthe exemplification shown in Fig. 8,

"dental displacement of the 'bag holding'cli p, a

the bag-holding clips maybe suspended --froni'the ceiling or any other support 34, by means of the 'hooks35' which are supported by suitable flexible members 36, which'are secured to the hooks 35 and engage suitable hooks 37 secured in theceilingor support.

--""In'the'exemplification shown in Fig. 5, it

willbe notedfthat'the plate18 and the base oi'the reduced portion 21 of theplate'QO are 'so locatedinrelation to each other that the eons-0f the"convolutions on projection 2 1:

will be? compressed, and when" the coil or,

convolution has been entirely inserted the aperture23 it'will expandto prevent acci- 'the rear rounded" or curved p6rtions'19, 2'2, of 'the plates permitting such an action" of the COIl.""V1iZl1'SUCl1' an arrangement and holding clip, the bags may besepara'tely 'removed" by grasping the upper" end or the bottom of the bag and drawing'ihesame either? suddenly or: slowly through the clip, iand as the: number of'bags "is reduced the flQXi'blG arm 26 will exert-"itspressure-uponi 1 "the sides-of; the remaining bags to hold the flatter inipos'ition. In" order-that the'invention might be fully tunderst'ood," the details 1of-an embodiment,

lflln'aidevice of the combination of a bag-holding clip comprising-spaced coils, and a yielding arm on each side of the coil, between which the bags are adaptedto be held, a support, and means adapted to'b'ejheld, a support provided with an aperture, said coils being compressed and insertedinto the recess for 'ho'lding the clip in position, and means wherebyg'the coils will be permitted to" expand "whenfin'posi 'tionin the aperture?'toi prevent:displace 1 i.

mentof the clipr. i -i i ,i i 3. In I a device of the class" described," the combination of a bag-holding clip, comprisg paced coils, andiyielding arms "on each side of the coils, between which thebags are i adapted to'be held, a support provided with an aperture, the'ends of the aperture being enlarged, and said coils -being'ieompressed and inserted in the aperture'for holding the clipin position, a portion ofthec'oils being adapted to expand wlien saidportion enters the enlargement attherear of the aperture to prevent displacement oftheolip; 1;

t. In a device of the class described, the

combination of a' bag-'holding clip, oompris- 1'- ing spaced coils, and yielding arms oneach .side of the coils between which the bags are adapted to be held, a support provided with an'aperture,said aperture being restricted intermediate its ends,fand-said're 'stricted portion compressingand' receiving the c'oilsfor friet-ionally holding the'elip in position; r ans anarticleof manufacture, a bag holding clip'constructedof a single piece of i1 i1 metal'shaped to form a coil intermediate its endsand'with theends forming; armsfdeflected toward each? othert'and'icrossing "in close proximity-- to the coil, said; am:-

tending for "some "distance beyond their crossing point, the free ends 'of'the arms'be- 'ingdefiectedtoward'eaeh other and inadirectioir away 'from thecoil, the extremities 'oit'*the"said free 'ends :of the arms being "defleeted toward and" overlappingeach, other.

363 Asanfiar't-icle" of-manufacturey a'bag holding clip constructed of "ta "single? piece of material shaped to formapoil' intermediate its :ends and -withtheeends forming arms deflected tow'ard'teach :otlier and "crossing-"in 11 "closeproximity to T theiteoil'," said arms "ex"- "tending" for some distance-'- beyond? E their crossing point-and curving away-i-fromzthe coil,:'the s free ends Ifo'f the "arms "beingdeflected toward each other and in a direction away from the coil, the extremities of the said free ends of the arms being deflected toward and overlapping each other.

7. As an article of manufacture, a bag holding clip constructed of a single piece of metal shaped to form a coil intermediate its ends and with the ends forming arms deflected toward each other and crossing in close proximity to the coil, said arms extending for some distance beyond their crossing point and curving away from the coil, the free ends of the curved portion Copies of this patent may be obtained for of the arms being deflected toward each other and in a direction away from the coil, the extremities of the said free ends of the arms being deflected toward and overlapping each other.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 1st day of October A. D. 1906.

FRED G. STORES.

Witnesses:

J. H. JooHUM, Jr., E. C. SEMPLE.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. C. 

